Kilmarnock Shed [3rd]

Location type

Place

Names and dates

Kilmarnock Carriage Shed [1st]
Kilmarnock Shed [3rd]

Note: text in square brackets is added for clarity and was not part of the location's name.

Description

This site is immediately north of Kilmarnock station. It was originally a carriage shed and later a locomotive shed. Today it is part of the Ayrshire College.

In the very early days of the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway there was an engine shed (Kilmarnock Shed [1st]) immediately north of Kilmarnock Junction and a carriage shed north of Kilmarnock station.

This was later (around 1870?) the site of a four road structure approached from the west with a turntable to the south. This replaced Kilmarnock Shed [1st] and Kilmarnock Shed [2nd]. A new carriage shed Kilmarnock Carriage Shed [2nd] opened in the 'V' Kilmarnock Junction alongside the then new Kilmarnock Works.

In 1877 the Glasgow and South Western Railway relocated its locomotive depot out to the new Hurlford Shed. This had been planned from 1873, in advance of the opening of the Glasgow and Kilmarnock Joint Railway as extra traffic built up.

The shed remained standing until the 1960s, used for light servicing.

Tags

Locomotive shed.